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Be Aware: Lessons for Everyone From An Artist With M.E.

Artist Michael Nobbs has contributed towards Blogging for ME/CFS Awareness 2010 with a post which shares some valuable lessons which we can all learn from.

“If you read my blog regularly, you’ll know that back in the late 1990s I was diagnosed with ME (or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). Or maybe you won’t. Until quite recently I was reticent about talking about being ill on my blog, and largely only mentioned it in the most general terms and when it got in the way of regular updates. My reasoning for this was two-fold.

Firstly, it didn’t feel very professional to talk about being ill. Would people hire me, or buy stuff from me (or even be interested in what I had to say) if they knew I was ill, and perhaps not able to always be completely reliable? Would talking about illness just be seen as self-indulgent? Was that the image of myself I wanted to portray?”